OTAGO.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 851, 28 September 1853, Page 3

OTAGO.

We learn with great satisfaction that theagreement for the purchase of 'the whole of the country lying south of the Otago block to Foveaux Straits, has just been completed, and will shortly be open for pastoral purposes under the Government Regulations. — Otago Witness, August 20. We have to call the attention of the public to a very important notice issued by the Crown Commissioner, to the following effect : — Pasturage. — 1. All persons depasturing Stock on that portion of the Crown Lands of the Province formerly known as the Otago Block, are requested to send to the Crown Commissioner's office on or before the 10th September next,- a return in a prescribed form. 2. On and afterJtherlSth September, applications in due form for licenses to depasture stock on the unsuryeveil" portion of the above lands will be received at the Crown Commissioner's office. Land Sales. — 1- Surveyed lands will be sold on and after "the Ist September in accordance with the terms of purchase of 1849. 2. All the unsurveyed -land, with the exception of the 144,600 acres, which form the original Otago JJlock, will, on and after the 19th September, be sold under the Government Regulations as improclaimed lands. Timber Licenses.— Applications for licenses to cut Timber on unsurveyed lands^are to be made on or after the 19th September. — Otaga Witness, August' 27. - ;